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Chapter 77 - 77 77 The Unbelievable Expert of Ancient Martial

77: Chapter 77: The Unbelievable Expert of Ancient Martial 77: Chapter 77: The Unbelievable Expert of Ancient Martial Miao Ruolan was suddenly startled.

Although she could easily crush such a red brick, the problem was, she barely used any strength.

Why was the brick so fragile?

“This is a brick from a load-bearing column!” Lin Xiaosu said.

“Load-bearing?

Such junk can bear loads?” Miao Ruolan widened her eyes.

Beside them, Zhou Xi was also shocked: “Are you saying there’s something wrong with the building materials of my house?”

“No!

It’s not what you think!” Lin Xiaosu said, “The building materials themselves are not the problem, otherwise, it wouldn’t have stood for so many years.

The real issue is that an Ancient Martial master slapped the load-bearing column.”

Zhou Xi’s face turned pale…

Miao Ruolan’s heart raced: “A single slap could shatter the bricks inside the bearing column, to what extent has his cultivation reached?”

Ancient Martial arts have their own categories.

Miao Family’s Ancient Martial Rejuvenation Technique is fundamentally oriented towards healing, and its offensive power isn’t that strong; at least, she couldn’t possibly shatter a load-bearing column with one slap.

In her view, her father was also far from reaching this realm, unless he specifically developed a dedicated rejuvenation pathway in his hand.

Lin Xiaosu looked up, his gaze passing over Miao Ruolan’s shoulder, looking behind her.

Miao Ruolan turned around and saw five young men.

Three with blonde hair, one with green hair, and the one in the middle looked the most normal, with black short hair, but he was obviously the core of the five.

“It’s Liu Liang!

That’s Liu Liang!” Zhou Xi whispered to Lin Xiaosu.

Lin Xiaosu’s lips moved to Miao Ruolan’s ear and he whispered a sentence…

Liu Liang, with a cigarette in his mouth and hands in his pockets, came over leisurely, his foot kicked up, and a brick almost flew past Lin Xiaosu’s head.

This movement was casually executed yet thrilling.

Zhou Xi’s face changed…

But Lin Xiaosu didn’t even blink, just quietly watching him…

“Who are you?

What are you doing here at the mine?” Liu Liang spoke without removing the cigarette from his mouth, standing on a pile of bricks, also forming a condescending sense of pressure.

Four lackeys formed a half-moon shape, clustering behind him.

“I am Detective Lin Xiaosu from Fengcheng Detective Agency!” Lin Xiaosu said.

“I came here to investigate the truth behind the death of Zhou Family’s elders seven days ago.”

“Oh?

A detective investigating a case?” Liu Liang burst into laughter.

“I thought you were filming a movie…”

The lackeys laughed along with him.

Liu Liang waved his hand, finally removing the cigarette from his mouth and casually flicked it away, the butt astonishingly flying over ten meters away, landing in a crack.

In all fairness, that was a cool move.

Unfortunately, Lin Xiaosu seemed to completely ignore it.

Liu Liang asked, “What have you found?”

“We have found it!” Lin Xiaosu said:” This house collapsed because an Inner Family master shattered the load-bearing columns of the house.”

At this revelation, nearly everyone was taken aback.

Zhou Xi was shocked; she studied law in college and had read too many case-related books.

She understood the importance of evidence in a crime too well.

Evidences, once meticulously discovered through investigation, should not be easily revealed to the suspects, as that could make them cautious and add unpredictable variables to further investigations.

Yet Lin Xiaosu, like a greenhorn in handling cases, had directly revealed his trump card.

And Liu Liang’s casually indifferent smile suddenly disappeared, replaced by a sinister look: “Do you have evidence?”

Four words, chilling to the bone.

“Yes!” Lin Xiaosu gently patted a cloth bag hanging on his body: “It has all been collected!”

“Let me see it!”

The moment the first word was spoken, Liu Liang was still three meters away, but by the last word, he had moved, crossing three meters in an instance, his right hand like an eagle’s claw, already grasping the strap of the bag on Lin Xiaosu’s shoulder…

However, he couldn’t continue.

Because a hand landed on his own shoulder!

Miao Ruolan!

Miao Ruolan pressed down her hand, locking the shoulder, causing Liu Liang’s face to change instantly.

Boom!

With a jolt of her hand, Miao Ruolan sent Liu Liang flying back more than three meters.

Liu Liang stepped on a brick, which split into pieces, halting the force of the throw, but also giving him a clear view of Miao Ruolan.

Ancient Martial!

“A person from Miao Family?”

“Yes!” Miao Ruolan said: “This is just a reminder to you, speak if you have issues, do not resort to violence!”

“Or else?”

“Or else, I will dislocate your joints!”

“Such audacity!

To talk to my big brother like this, I’ll beat you to death!” Two blond-haired individuals lunged at her, each holding a brick, aiming for Miao Ruolan.

Before she even got close, Miao Ruolan lifted her left foot.

In mid-air, her legs kicked out like a phantom, causing two red-haired men to jump over the brick pile in front and land five meters away.

As the other two were about to strike, Liu Liang stretched out his hand to stop them.

He knew very well that this Miao Family girl’s combat ability was superior to his own.

“It doesn’t bother me if you guys ask for trouble, but if her beating includes me because I’m the eldest brother, wouldn’t that be a huge loss?”

“Everything this morning is done!” Lin Xiaosu said, “Let’s go over there for lunch!”

He pointed to a small farm at the foot of the mountain.

“Let’s go!” Miao Ruolan grabbed Zhou Xi’s hand, following Lin Xiaosu down the mountain.

When they had left, three red-haired and one green-haired man approached Liu Liang.

“Big Brother, are we just letting them go?”

“They haven’t planned to leave yet; they probably want to ask around for information,” Liu Liang’s face revealed a sinister smile.

“No need to rush…”

The small farm below the mountain was the most basic kind.

There wasn’t even a sign, just two large characters written on the wall with white lime: “Eat.”

That was all.

Why?

There isn’t much business here anyway, aside from out-of-town drivers hauling stones from the mines; locals don’t come here to eat.

Those who know about it, know; those who don’t, there’s no hope they will.

Why bother with a signboard?

Lin Xiaosu and the others entered, the small farm had no customers, just a farm lady washing vegetables in a large basin.

Upon hearing their intent, she smiled happily, wiped her hands on her apron, got up to pour tea for them, and said you can tell from your attire that you are from the city, please sit in the room over there.

This room was considered a private room.

Tea was served, it was this year’s new tea, hand-made, the appearance was hard to describe, but the taste was quite good.

Zhou Xi cradled the teacup, seemingly distracted, repeatedly hesitating to speak.

Lin Xiaosu looked at her several times and finally asked, “What do you want to say?”

Zhou Xi put down her teacup.

“Detective Lin, I have no say in the investigation, please don’t blame me if I speak wrongly, but I still think…

I think you’ve made a mistake.”

“Go on!”

Zhou Xi said, “You just found this critical clue, but you told Liu Liang, giving them a chance to destroy the evidence.

If they use a bulldozer to flatten that house and smash the bricks, wouldn’t this chain of evidence be destroyed?”

Miao Ruolan’s teacup stopped spinning, and she looked up.

She was different from Zhou Xi.

Zhou Xi did not know his wonders.

She knew.

But, even though she was fully confident in his usual miraculous ways, she still felt that Lin Xiaosu’s approach today was puzzling.

As Zhou Xi said, such critical evidence chain should not be damaged; the right approach would be to first report to the police, let the police seal off the scene, obtain more evidence from this pile of rubble gradually forming a complete chain, and only then there might be a chance to convict Liu Yuanchang.

But revealing this evidence to Liu Liang firsthand, exposing such a vulnerability, he would surely destroy the evidence in advance.

Just a push from a bulldozer and smashing the bricks, who could prove that these bricks once withstood the destruction by the inner strength of a practitioner of Ancient Martial?

Wouldn’t the hard-found evidence be ruined?

Lin Xiaosu looked up, staring at Miao Ruolan, “Ruolan, do you think so too?”

Ruolan hesitated for a moment, then gently nodded, “I think Zhou Xi makes a good point.”

Lin Xiaosu said, “You can accept that an Ancient Martial practitioner can destroy a load-bearing column with inner strength because you practice Ancient Martial, but other people might not accept that.

This evidence brought to court inherently lacks persuasiveness.”

“So, this evidence isn’t important on its own!” Miao Ruolan said.

“The evidence is important, but cannot be used alone!

We need corroborative evidence.”

“Corroborative evidence?” Miao Ruolan frowned.

“What kind of corroborative evidence?”

“Like, recording an image of Liu Yuanchang punching the wall!”

Zhou Xi’s heart pounded…

As he said, it’s absurd to use a few bricks that have had their internal structures destroyed and lost their load-bearing ability to prove that her house was forcibly collapsed by a practitioner of Ancient Martial; the court absolutely wouldn’t accept it.

However, if it was recorded on video, Liu Yuanchang punching a wall, and the internal structure of the wall truly changed, only then could a complete chain of evidence be formed.

“But, but…” Zhou Xi said, “Now that Liu Liang knows, he will definitely contact his dad immediately.

Liu Yuanchang is not a fool.

How could he possibly demonstrate to us and allow us to record it?”

The intelligence of Liu Yuanchang aside.

The key point is his lifetime of wrongdoing and still being free to this day; such a person, you can question his character, but you must not doubt his counter-investigation awareness.

An Ancient Martial practitioner, knowing his martial arts skills have been linked to a murder case, would he still exhibit them to reinforce the impressions of the investigators?

He would most likely deliberately hide this shocking ability.

“You want to record him punching a wall; it’s not just harder than reaching the sky, it’s pure fantasy,” Lin Xiaosu smirked.

“Everyone says it’s easier to change the mountains than alter one’s nature!

Although it’s not absolutely true, in most cases, it is,” Zhou Xi’s eyes were sweating slightly as she looked at the road outside, feeling something was amiss with the cars passing by.

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